Reidlin Road section, Forest Hills: Maysvillian, Kentucky
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Proteoceratidae
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Treptoceras duseri
(Hall and Whitfield 1875)
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USNM 468727 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky | County: | Campbell |
Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 84.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 26.3° South, 60.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
Key time interval: | Maysvillian | ||
Age range of interval: | 450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Fairview | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "12 ft above Kope Formation-Fairview Formation contact." |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal "limestone" | ||
Secondary lithology: | "shale" | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: " [...] even-bedded fossiliferous limestone and shale [...]" | |||
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Geology comments: " [...] transitional environments between the deep-water, transgressive conditions associated with the underlying Kope Formation and the very shallow water, locally shoaling conditions, inferred for basal portions of the overlying Grant Lake Limestone." |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
Also known as: | collection KY-3; Mason Road; Kentucky Route 16 | ||
Database number: | 87910 | ||
Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2009-03-27 19:20:02 | Last modified: | 2009-04-30 09:15:36 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-03-27 19:20:02 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
24575. | R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126 [S. Holland/S. Holland] |